RESTON, VA ? 2012 was a milestone year for the U.S. smartphone market as it finally surpassed 50 percent market penetration and now enters the ?late majority? stage of the technology adoption curve, said comScore in a report called 2013 Mobile Future In Focus. The report examines the U.S. mobile and connected device landscape in
DETROIT ? TheFreeLunchFriday hosts its second monthly meet-up Feb. 22 at Atomic Object's Harmonie Park office. The featured speaker is Mike McGee, co-founder of The Starter League, a beginner-focused software school in Chicago. Before The Starter League, Mike's greatest claim to fame was that his High School mascot was a pretzel. He went to Northwestern
GRAND RAPIDS ? Keith Brophy, for the 12th straight year, offered up his vision of the tech future with 10 predictions that include a future where robots will play professional sports. Brophy, a long-time West Michigan serial entrepreneur, now CEO of Grand Rapids-based Ideomed, spoke to a packed house at the Eve Restaurant at the
LANSING - Mike Hansen, president of the Michigan Community College Association, on Wednesday applauded Governor Rick Snyder's $1.1 million one-time appropriation to improve the virtual learning collaborative, saying it would help students access the courses they need. "It's really the direction that education is going, so we were very happy the governor chose to support
LANSING - Michigan has cut real spending on students over the past 12 years, witnesses told the House Appropriations School Aid Subcommittee on Tuesday. When inflation is considered, total spending on Michigan's K-12 system has fallen by 18 percent in 12 years, Steven Norton of Michigan Parents for Schools told the subcommittee. Subcommittee members also
STAMFORD, Conn. - Consumers will use and interact with a multitude of connected, sensor-enabled devices driven by applications and services to create cognizant ecosystems independent of a platform or operating system, predicts a new study. Gartner said consumers' digital lives have transitioned from the PC to a personal cloud-driven world that is driving a new
LANSING ? The Michigan Film Office announced today the feature film Need for Speed has been approved for a film incentive from the state. The DreamWorks Studios' film chronicles a cross-country journey at impossible speeds and will film in part in Detroit this summer. In addition to filming in the state, two Michigan businesses ?
DETROIT ? Compuware Corp. has developed a poison pill defense against takeover by New York hedge fund, Elliott Management that would pay senior executives big bonuses if the computer software and services company changes hands and they lose their jobs as a result. In a filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commisssion, Compuware
DETROIT - Wayne State University's contract to conduct federally funded research into problem pregnancies was extended another decade through a $165.9 million deal announced Thursday. Wayne State said the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Wayne State a second 10-year contract to
LANSING - A majority of Michigan voters favors changing the way the state awards electoral votes in presidential elections from winner-take-all to by congressional district, but a majority then opposes the change when told that Mitt Romney would have won more electoral votes in Michigan under this system despite President Barack Obama carrying the state.